Welcome to Six Word Sermon

You might have heard about the six-word memoir phenomenon – the sport of condensing your life story into six words.

This morning I was attempting to give a brief rendering of the day’s sermon by the Episcopal Church’s Presiding Bishop, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, on Day One of the Church’s General Convention in Anaheim, California. Because I’m hosting the Daily Wrap, a short – really short, two minute – video news show, I needed to capture the essence of the sermon in a limited number of words. So I thought, “How about six?”

Six Word Sermon was born. Like an hour ago.

For each day of General Convention, I will condense the sermon from the Daily Eucharist at General Convention into six words and reveal them on the Daily Wrap. (It should be up at the Media Hub by about 8 p.m. Pacific Time.)

Once I decided to do this it occurred to me that not everyone who hears or reads the sermons will agree with my six words. So here’s your chance to post your own version of each day’s sermon.

Bishop Katharine’s sermon is on-line here as on-demand video and here in print at Episcopal Cafe.

Have at it.

While you don’t have to use your name, you do have to be respectful. Sermonizing is hard.

But we all know that  six word sermonizing is harder.

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